AMONG those who carried out the decapitations was the son of a Japanese businessmen killed by the guerrillas on the night of the uprising. He was said to have wielded his Japanese military sword and hacked repeatedly at one of the prisoners (Mochizuki 1995: 60). Not much else is known of what transpired at Petagas after that, but news of the executions soon spread to Jesselton and the entire west coast. It had a profound impact on the morale and spirit of the people, striking fear in them. At the Batu Tiga prison the fate of those who had been sent to Petagas on 21 January was known to the remaining prisoners the following afternoon. Though the men were aware that Albert Kwok and the 175 men had been taken out and put on the train, they were under the impression that the men were being transported to another place to serve their prison sentences.
On 8 February 1944 the remaining prisoners, whose numbers had been increased by those arrested after 21 January, were once again taken
ON HIS side Kwok had about one hundred of his Kinabalu band and could count on nearly twice that number of islanders. Very few of his men had any military training. Peter and Dewa Singh were ex-policemen and Li Tet Phui and Jules Stephens had some part-time experience as soldiers.
The rest were new to the business. No written orders of the force have survived. Very likely there were none. People have taken different views of what Kwok’s plan really was.
Some think he intended to knock out the Japanese in Jesselton, hold the town and rally supporters to his banner, then, with help from the Allies, throw the Japanese out of Sabah
Albert Kwok, a young Chinese, had come to Jesselton (now Kota Kinabalu) in 1940. He was a Sarawak man, born in Kuching, where his father was a dentist. He was trained in the arts of Chinese healing and had been a very successful Chinese doctor in Nanking, Hankow and Canton.
He returned to Borneo in 1940 and made his home with his sister and her husband in Jesselton. Here he carried on his work as a Chinese doctor until his stock of medicines ran out. Kwok was a busy man, full of energy. He always tried to look on the bright side of things and hoped for the best.
He had seen something of the Japanese in China and hated them for their cruelty to his people. Right from the start he made up his mind to oppose the invaders. Kwok heard that in Dutch Borneo (Kalimantan) there was a party of Dutch, British and Americans still holding out in a place called Long Nawan. In February 1942 he tried to make his way there through Pensiangan but found when he got to the Sabah border it wa
12 Apr 2021 / 20:49 H.
KUALA
LUMPUR: A businessman who made headlines after he escaped from the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) building in October last year, was arraigned in the Sessions Court here on money laundering charges involving over RM2.1 million.
Goh Leong Yeong (
right), or better known as Alvin Goh, 33, and his brother Goh Yeong Hui, 28, pleaded not guilty after all the seven charges against them were read before Judge Datin Sabariah Othman.
The two directors of Malaysia House of Internet Sdn Bhd were alleged to have received RM2,144,000 in proceeds from illegal activities, in their company’s Public Bank Berhad account from two Chinese nationals, at Public Bank Berhad, Jalan Bukit Bintang, here between Sept 9 and Nov 7, 2019.
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